definitely not. | e. moskowitz

03 all valley

ME AND MOON walk into california state university where they're holding the all valley tournament. there was so many people there for a karate tournament. me and look struggled to get through to the booth where we could pay to get in. moon looks around the packed room, to get a sight of hawk. "do you see him anywhere mae?" she asked, still looking around. i pretend to look for him and respond, "nope, don't see him!" i then take her hand and push us through the crowd. i push us to the front of the line. the person running the booth looks at us and gives a weak smile, "hey ladies!" he says, trying to act tough. me and moon look at each other and try not to laugh. "uh, hey!" i respond, still holding back laughter. "just you two, or are there more?" he says with a smirk. i give him and funny look and nod, "nope just us". he nods, "$14." he holds out his hand for us to hand him the money. "fourteen dollars? for a karate tournament?" i say to myself, low enough for him not to hear in the loud room. i take out my $7 and moon does the same, and we both put it in the boys sweaty hand. he takes the money and puts it in some box on the table, then handing us the wristbands to continue into the main gym.

once we enter the gymnasium, it's not too packed yet as we had gotten there quite early and cut the line. we pick a spot somewhat in the middle of bleachers, the best view in our opinion. moon continues to look around for hawk, still no sight of his blue mohawk. i go on my phone to text sam, asking her if she was here yet. once i send the text i put my phone down and keep looking around. the gym slowly starts getting more flooded as more and more people push through. my phone rings, a text from sam. "hey yeah i just got here!" it read, i look back to the door, but i don't see her and her family. i was planning on talking to mr. larusso myself, to ask about joining his dojo. "oh alright!" i text back, putting my phone back into my pocket. then i see demetri coming up the bleachers and walk towards us. "demetri?" i ask, confused on why he's choosing to sit next to us. "got no where else to sit, hope this is okay." he responds as he sits down. i nod and pay my attention back to the front. moon is still looking around hopelessly, i give her a disappointed look and go back to looking at the door, which is still flooding. cobra kai still hasn't arrived and moon looks worried. "why haven't they gotten here? hawk told me they would be competing today!" she complained. i groan softly and look at her. "i'm sure they're just running late, they'll be here." i affirm her. demetri nods and looks over at us.

"welcome, everyone, to the 50th annual all valley under 18 karate championship!" the announcer says into the microphone. me and moon cheer and clap, but demetri says silent. "this thing has been going on for 50 years?" he looks over at us. me and moons faces drop and look over at him confused. "am i the only one who's been out of the loop?" he continued, still so confused. me and moon chuckle and look back up at the front of the gym. "you guys will love the new mats!" the announcer laughs at his own joke. he goes on and introduces all the dojos competing. i see sam walk over to a front row spot all the way in front of me with her family. i smile and wave over to her, she immediately sees me and waves back. "WOOO YEAH! TOPANGA! KICK SOME ASS XANDER!" some lady screams, she was wearing all blue and was sitting right next to sam's family. me and moon give her a weird look and then look at each other. "from reseda, returning to the tournament, we have-" the announcer says but gets cut off by chanting, "cobra kai! cobra kai! cobra kai! cobra kai!". everyone who goes to cobra kai jogs in a straight line. miguel was first in line, and behind him was hawk. moon squeals and hits my arm. "there he is! there he is!" i laugh and nod. "yep!" i say, not really amused by seeing him, but supporting moon. demetri cheers as he sees hawk. there was more people than i thought there'd be in cobra kai, actually, more people who did karate in our area. cobra kai's sense follows behind, he looks so serious and scary. even i'm scared from the audience. they stop in a straight line with a "huh!".

"now that's what i call an entrance!" the announcer yells with a smile on his face. "and a badass name for a dojo!" he continued. cobra kai stood there, they looked so serious. "let's hear it for cobra kai!". me, moon, and demetri cheered and clapped as loud as we could. "whoo! whoo! go, hawk!" moon yelled out. hawk didn't look over at us but let a little smirk crawl onto his face, but immediately going back to his stern expression. i could see miguel look at sam. sam's family was right next to cobra kai's lineup, which i could tell was awkward for sam and miguel. "and finally, fighting unaffiliated from north hills, robby keene!" the announcer smiled. robby keene was the guy who was with sam the night of the party, i guess mr. larusso wasn't his sensei. robby jogs into the gym from this door to the side. miguel and hawks eyes follow robby as he jogs past them, a scowl on both of their faces. "alright folks, get ready... it's karate time!" the crowd cheered as me and moon clapped. demetri honestly still looked confused, but still clapped. there was multiple fights going on at the same time, i couldn't even look at all of them. the fights weren't on the main mat, but on separate ones to the side. i could see miguel fighting someone in this bright red gi. i honestly barely knew how karate worked other than first to 3 wins. i just focused on miguel's fight since i knew him.

miguel and other boy bow to the ref and then to each other. miguel starts to get in this kicking position, with both of his arms up and one of his legs coming up. "and fight!" the ref says taking a step back off the mat. as soon as the ref steps away miguel kicks the boy in the chin. me, moon, and demetri gasp as the boy falls on his back. everyone in the stands cheers and claps as miguel stands over the boy and looks at him. "that's one point diaz!" the ref says putting up one finger on miguel's side. the fight went on and miguel ending winning. i scanned the gym some more and saw robby fighting some guy, and aisha also fighting some guy. i was surprised girls were allowed to fight guys instead of them having their own division. because i did not want to go up against a boy who had been doing karate his whole life, especially if they decided to kick me like miguel kicked the other dude. after aisha's fight it's hawks turn. "and fight!" the ref yells. moon screams for hawk. "GO HAWK!" she yells hoping he can hear her. on the final point, 2-3, in hawks favor, hawk gets pushed back but once he regains his balance he runs over to the guy and punches in square in the face. all of us gasp but clap as hawk gets the point. the ref raises hawks arm and he smiles and yells. moon smiles and cheers for him. "YEAH HAWK!" she yells. he nods at her and smiles. i look at demetri and we both cringe slightly at them. once the ref puts hawks arm down he unties and throws down his gi to the floor. "YEAH!" he screams. i didn't realize... but this boy as abs! like very, very, sculpted abs. my jaws falls open as i see him continue to flex to the crowd. "damn he is so hot!" moon says as he also watched. as much as i hated hawk, i had to admit he was good looking, minus the mohawk. demetri looks over at moon and cringes.

hawk turns his back to the crowd to show off his hawk tattoo. "he has a tattoo?" i gasped. demetri was just as confused, he had no idea hawk had gotten a tattoo. "what the fuck?", demetri squinted his eyes to get a better look at him. as hawk turns his back he rolls his back muscles to make it seem like the hawk was flying. my face crinkles as i see him do that, i was getting second hand embarrassment. but moon was out of it, she thought it was so hot. she was all smiles and in the clouds. "i can not believe this works..." demetri complained. i let out a soft laugh and continue watching hawks embarrassing attempts to flex for the crowd. after this tinys kids fight, it was time for the quarterfinals. the first quarterfinals fight was miguel. of course he won. i didn't realize how good he was at karate. after a few people, robby fought, and won. i looked down at sam's family, and her dad was so into the fight. like so into it, it looked like he was in the fight himself. "that's three points keene!" the ref says as he grabs robby's arm.  robby smiles at the crowd, but specifically sam. miguel had been looking at sam the whole tournament, everytime i saw him, his eyes were on sam. hawk fights and ended up winning, pretty easily too. so now him and miguel are going to the semi finals. "over on mat four, xander stone advances to the semi finals!" i looked over and it was aisha on the floor holding onto her stomach. "oh my god!" i exclaim, still shocked on how she could be fighting against boys like this. aisha gets up and grabs her bag then storms away. and then sam follows her out the gym. "xander stone is our last semi finalist!" the announcer says into the microphone.

a/n: don't forget to upvote and comment!! this chapter was supposed to be way longer (like over 4k words... but i decided to split it in half!) enjoy this chapter while i finish up the next part!